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.Dd July 7, 2006
.Dt MAC_IS_PRESENT 3
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm mac_is_present
.Nd report whether the running system has MAC support
.Sh LIBRARY
.Lb libc
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.In sys/mac.h
.Ft int
.Fn mac_is_present "const char *policyname"
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Fn mac_is_present
function determines whether the currently-running kernel supports MAC for
a given policy or not.
If
.Fa policyname
is
.Pf non- Dv NULL ,
the presence of the named policy
(e.g.\&
.Dq Li biba ,
.Dq Li mls ,
.Dq Li te )
is checked, otherwise the presence of any MAC policies at all is checked.
.Sh RETURN VALUES
If the system supports the given MAC policy, the value 1 is returned.
If the specified MAC policy is not supported, the value 0 is returned.
If an error occurs, the value \-1 is returned.
.Sh ERRORS
.Bl -tag -width Er
.It Bq Er EINVAL
The value of
.Fa policyname
is not valid.
.It Bq Er ENOMEM
Insufficient memory was available to allocate internal storage.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr mac 3 ,
.Xr mac_free 3 ,
.Xr mac_get 3 ,
.Xr mac_prepare 3 ,
.Xr mac_set 3 ,
.Xr mac_text 3 ,
.Xr mac 4 ,
.Xr mac 9
.Sh HISTORY
Support for Mandatory Access Control was introduced in
.Fx 5.0
as part of the
.Tn TrustedBSD
Project.
